Who Benefits From DBT?

Individuals who may benefit from DBT include adolescents 14 years of age through high school and adults who:

• May have been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder

Or are experiencing some of the following:

• Chronic suicidal thoughts

• Multiple suicide attempts

• Self-mutilation such as cutting, burning, piercing for the experience of the piercing

• Disordered eating; weight and body image issues

• Serial problematic relationships

• Over-spending

• Alcohol and other drug use (after a period of sobriety)

• Isolation and chronic feeling of emptiness

• Emotional and behavioral distress related to issues of chronic pain

DBT may also be a benefit for individuals whose treatment to this point (individual outpatient therapy, psychiatric hospitalizations, residential treatment programs, substance abuse treatment, etc.) has not been as effective as desired.

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